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I notice your hips tend to come up as you initiate each pull, and it leads to some lower back rounding. I see your hips driving but your head staying down. You're basically pulling with less than optimal leverages, and still making the weight look easy.

You're a strong ass deadlifter. My only advice is to really focus on standing up rather than pulling. Get that head/torso driving up.

Also, I tend to see the hips flying up on guys that roll the bar. Not everyone, but many. There is this tendency to roll and pull instead of roll and stand up.

Next time you deadlift maybe take a video of yourself with and without rolling so you can take a look and see if it's contributing somehow to the hips coming up for you.

That's what I was thinking too. I need to keep my hips down at the beginning and use my legs more. As far as rolling the bar... I've tried many times to stop doing that but I always come back to rolling b/c I feel like I get more momentum from it. I'll try to get more video of me not rolling the bar in the future. Thanks for the advice BtB!

I did this in my old gym at University of Florida in Gainesville. It was great to train in the secret "dungeon gym" hidden in the bottom of the basketball arena. It's where I started my journey in powerlifting. I started at 165lbs in 2006. I now weigh 265lbs. A lot of PRs in this gym. First 400 and 500 pull. First 300 bench. Felt great to train there!

Haha... You got me. Where do you think I got it from? My deadlift style is a total rip off of Benni. He's the reason I started deadlifting like I do. Back in '06 I used to watch this video over and over and then go try pull 400 pounds:

I even started listening to AC/DC TNT when I deadlift because of him. My favorite powerlifter of all time!